Hello Ravi,
There is a lot of interest in your plan for rehabilitation. Unfortunately your entry form is very sparse and we need a lot more information in order to understand the work that you're doing. It would be great if you could incorporate some of the feedback and improve upon your entry form.
Thank you.
Dana Frasz
Ashoka's Changemakers
I think you have some great ideas here and I was excited to read an entry that understood the importance of providing survivors of trafficking with new opportunities for their futures, especially one that focused on providing survivors with viable economic opportunities. Great job!
In your entry you say that you will categorize people in terms of their "family condition, mental ability, nature, behavior, skill sets, and health." I would suggest that you explain this fuller. Why are you organizing people in this way? Do you consider some people more at risk to being re-trafficked than others? Do you envision different groups needing different types of services?
Also, I think it would be helpful to think about how you might identify your target beneficiaries. Will your program provide services for survivors of any type of forced labor survivor or will it focus on a sub-set of people, for example children, survivors of sex trafficking, men who are forced to work in agriculture, etc.
I was quite excited to read your entry. Having seen some of the rehabiliation programs available for human trafficking and child labor survivors, I believe that there are critical and urgent needs to provide well-developed programs them. There seems to be a huge gap in terms of the needs of survivors both in terms of practical skills training and income-generating opportunities, as well as psychological, social, and emotional needs.
In fact, many safe houses operate well under a required operating budget that falls short of providing regular meals to survivors of human trafficking and child labor, let alone affording counseling expertise and providing seed money for meaningful work.
I want to echo the last commentator's suggestions to specify the types of activities that you would plan on engaging survivors in. If you have not yet articulated those activities, I would suggest you consider activities that would provide survivors of human trafficking and forced labor with opportunities to play in a safe environment, build friendships, and receive much needed counseling from a licensend professional who specializes in this area. I would also suggest that you think about sustainable income-generating activities that include real skills training taking into consideration the local economy into which the survivors will become integrated.
I cannot tell you how disappointing it is to walk into a shelter where it is being boasted that teenage girls are being taught hairdressing skills- only to find out that 85% were engaged in hair dressing BEFORE being trafficked, indicating that that specific skill is not a sustainable income-generating skill that will result in real change in her life. There does need to be a huge shift in the way we look at rehabilitation so that we can provide meaningful services to survivors as opposed to providing them with skills that previously contributed to their vulnerability in an unsustainable economic activity.
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Gender Equality and Human Trafficking Specialist
Congratulations on your entry. You are probably right that rehabiliations programmes should be reformed, although I do not know the details. What most struck me about your plan was to generate financial support for the at risk groups. I would suggest that you further elaborate this part of your entry. What activities would you concretly organize, how would it be marketed, how much people would be able to sustain themselves with these incomes and be kept safe from slavery, questions like that.
Perhaps for inspiration you can look at this website: www.fairmail.info. Something to cooperate on in India soon?
Greetings from Peru, peter
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Peter den Hond
Director FairMail Cards
www.fairmail.info
peter@fairmail.info
yes govenment should introduce some strict laws to make shure that the hundred percent of the help should be given to the victims.
on the other hand we should also have to come out with some solutions that how to make situations better for them.
for this we need some valendiers to help out the people.
Aishwarya Gupta
Manager
RIL
Member
Mission Bhartiyam
you are doing a very good job. it will defenitly encourage the other student, specially those who are destroy their golden age due to the drugs.
Hello Ravi,
There is a lot of interest in your plan for rehabilitation. Unfortunately your entry form is very sparse and we need a lot more information in order to understand the work that you're doing. It would be great if you could incorporate some of the feedback and improve upon your entry form.
Thank you.
Dana Frasz
Ashoka's Changemakers
Hi Ravi;
I think you have some great ideas here and I was excited to read an entry that understood the importance of providing survivors of trafficking with new opportunities for their futures, especially one that focused on providing survivors with viable economic opportunities. Great job!
In your entry you say that you will categorize people in terms of their "family condition, mental ability, nature, behavior, skill sets, and health." I would suggest that you explain this fuller. Why are you organizing people in this way? Do you consider some people more at risk to being re-trafficked than others? Do you envision different groups needing different types of services?
Also, I think it would be helpful to think about how you might identify your target beneficiaries. Will your program provide services for survivors of any type of forced labor survivor or will it focus on a sub-set of people, for example children, survivors of sex trafficking, men who are forced to work in agriculture, etc.
Good Luck!
Public Health and Trafficking Specialist
Hello,
I was quite excited to read your entry. Having seen some of the rehabiliation programs available for human trafficking and child labor survivors, I believe that there are critical and urgent needs to provide well-developed programs them. There seems to be a huge gap in terms of the needs of survivors both in terms of practical skills training and income-generating opportunities, as well as psychological, social, and emotional needs.
In fact, many safe houses operate well under a required operating budget that falls short of providing regular meals to survivors of human trafficking and child labor, let alone affording counseling expertise and providing seed money for meaningful work.
I want to echo the last commentator's suggestions to specify the types of activities that you would plan on engaging survivors in. If you have not yet articulated those activities, I would suggest you consider activities that would provide survivors of human trafficking and forced labor with opportunities to play in a safe environment, build friendships, and receive much needed counseling from a licensend professional who specializes in this area. I would also suggest that you think about sustainable income-generating activities that include real skills training taking into consideration the local economy into which the survivors will become integrated.
I cannot tell you how disappointing it is to walk into a shelter where it is being boasted that teenage girls are being taught hairdressing skills- only to find out that 85% were engaged in hair dressing BEFORE being trafficked, indicating that that specific skill is not a sustainable income-generating skill that will result in real change in her life. There does need to be a huge shift in the way we look at rehabilitation so that we can provide meaningful services to survivors as opposed to providing them with skills that previously contributed to their vulnerability in an unsustainable economic activity.
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Gender Equality and Human Trafficking Specialist
Hi Ravi,
Congratulations on your entry. You are probably right that rehabiliations programmes should be reformed, although I do not know the details. What most struck me about your plan was to generate financial support for the at risk groups. I would suggest that you further elaborate this part of your entry. What activities would you concretly organize, how would it be marketed, how much people would be able to sustain themselves with these incomes and be kept safe from slavery, questions like that.
Perhaps for inspiration you can look at this website: www.fairmail.info. Something to cooperate on in India soon?
Greetings from Peru, peter
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Peter den Hond
Director FairMail Cards
www.fairmail.info
peter@fairmail.info
yes govenment should introduce some strict laws to make shure that the hundred percent of the help should be given to the victims.
on the other hand we should also have to come out with some solutions that how to make situations better for them.
for this we need some valendiers to help out the people.
Aishwarya Gupta
Manager
RIL
Member
Mission Bhartiyam
yes,rehabilitation programme should be reformed by govt.
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Ravi Nitesh
student:university of petroleum & energy studies,
dehradun(Uttarakhand)-INDIA
member
MISSION BHARTIYAM
INDIA